From owner-freebsd-java Fri Jun 2 8:43: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCB537B76F for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:43:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10372; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:42:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08575; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:42:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:42:57 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006021542.JAA08575@nomad.yogotech.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Rob Furphy Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't remove directories? In-Reply-To: <3937D582.66574C40@ox.com> References: <200006020107.KAA30783@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> <3937D0EA.D9D1E8BE@ox.com> <200006021526.JAA08470@nomad.yogotech.com> <3937D582.66574C40@ox.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'd love this to have been already solved. > File.delete() and File.deleteOnExit() are using two different mechanisms > to perform the delete (I'm almost certain now). *sigh* > File.deleteOnExit() was introduced in Java 1.2 so this particular > problem is -new- in the jvm code. The call to deleteOnExit > puts your filename(or dir) into a list of things to > be deleted when the JVM exits. Ahh, Ok. > That said, thanks for the encouragement Nate, I appreciate it. > I'll look into this again if/when I have some time. Thanks, sorry I can't be more help..... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message